Drought
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The recent rains have improved drought conditions across the region this week. All severe (D2) drought has been removed but areas of moderate (D1) drought remain in Georgia and Florida. Drought was removed from South Carolina and North Carolina, although in NC there are still some patches of abnormally dry (D0) conditions. Most of the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows some reduction in drought and dry conditions this week in eastern North Carolina and adjoining areas. However, the area of severe (D2) drought in northwestern Florida did expand slightly. Rain in the next week should further improve drought conditions in most of the region except southern Florida.
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The latest Drought Monitor, released this morning, shows a decrease in drought in every state in the Southeast over the last week due to recent rains. I don’t expect to see much change in the next week in the southern part of the region, but the northern part is receiving quite a bit of rain…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows a decrease in drought across the region. This was expected because of the significant amount of rain that we saw in the last week. The only increase was a minor amount of abnormally dry conditions (D0) in Virginia. More rain in the next week everywhere except for the…
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Today’s Drought Monitor shows that there were only slight changes in the status of abnormally dry conditions and drought across the region. The biggest change was a slight decrease in the area of severe (D2) drought in the southern counties of Georgia. I expect to see more improvement in next week’s map with the rain…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that recent rains have improved moisture conditions in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. However, the rain largely missed coastal areas of NE Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, leading to worsening conditions there. The rain from Thursday’s storms may provide some needed moisture, but the line of storms is…
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The latest Drought Monitor was released today. It shows only slight decreases in drought over the last two weeks. Since temperature was so low for a lot of it and some rainfall (and snow flurries!) but not a lot, that is not surprising. Since quite a bit of rain fell since the data cutoff on…
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